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Baked yams with whiskey-soaked craisins

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  • 1½ sticks butter
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup raw or demerara sugar
Mix butter, brown sugar, raw sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg into a sugar butter mixture.
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • 1½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
  • 3 whole yams
  • kosher salt
  • butter
Put three peeled and sliced yams, a generous pinch of kosher salt and the sugar butter mixture into a generously buttered casserole and mix.
Cover and bake at 375F for about 30 minutes, then mix.
Return uncovered to the oven for another 15 to 20 minutes.
  • whiskey
  • craisins
  • ricotta cheese
Pour boiling whiskey over craisins and let them soak until the sweet potatoes come out of the oven.
  • toasted pecans
  • honey
Top with ricotta cheese, the whiskey-soaked craisins and toasted pecans, and optionally a drizzle of honey.